Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody could say for sure how it all began. And nobody, for that matter, particularly cared. The fact was that spring had come, and U.S. college boys, jaded by past triumphs in 1) goldfish swallowing and 2) panty stealing, took up last week a new game called Telephone Box Squash. It started in South Africa, sped on to England, and by week's end was the rage in California...
Careful students of the game were quick to point out that it is essential for the phone to be in the booth, for it is absolutely necessary that one of the crowd be able to answer the phone if it should ring. There are no extra credits awarded for placing a call midst the squash, and if the boys can get a few coeds to join in, there should be no necessity to call...
...brother (Jack Kelly), who takes the lead in the hour-long show every other week, are slow on the draw, cautious, seething with dishonorable intentions toward girls in gingham. They are self-tooting tinhorns who play poker in such a way that it is not a game of chance. "Work," proclaims Maverick, "is a shaky way to make a living," and he firmly believes that "there are times when a man must rise above principles." Maverick Garner, born James Baumgarner in Norman. Okla., fought in Korea, had a bit part in Sayonara. Now 30, Jim looks like a sort...
...surprising stand that full material on the now public story would have to be released only "through normal scientific channels" (e.g., learned journals like the Physical Review, circ. 10,530). Snapped Quarles about the clean-handed beat of Baldwin and Sullivan: "I would say it was not playing the game with the Defense Department the way I would like it played...
Hardly a newsman in the U.S. could agree with Quarles. Hanson Baldwin, Walter Sullivan and the Times had in fact played the game at its best-with initiative and responsibility...